Clothes-drier.



J. L. CLARKE.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV.13, 1912.

1,090,837. Patented Mar. 24, 19m

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A ttormyg JOHN LEE CLARKE, OF ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN LEE CLARKE,

citizen of the United States, residing at Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo and State of New Mexico, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes driers and more particularly to that type of clothes drier including a rack or clothes supporting frame also position them near the ceiling which,

of course, is the hottest part of the room,

The main object of my invention is to provide a rack orclothes holding frame including a main body member and a plurality of clothes receiving arms detachably connected to the body member. And a further object of my invention is to provide a novel form of hinge for coupling the arms in pairs, said hinges being so arranged as to also assist in securing the arms in place upon the body member of the rack.

With these and other objects in View, my invention will be more fully explained, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and then specifically pointed out in the claims which are attached to and form a part of this application.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved rack in raised position, one pair of clothes supporting arms being shown in position; Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of one pair of clothes supporting arms showing the hinged connection between the same.

The preferred embodiment of my invention includes a body member 10 consisting of a substantially rectangular bar the upper edge of which is slightly rounded as shown at 11 in Fig. 2, this bar being preferably formed of wood and provided throughout its length with a plurality of spaced apart, transversely extending bores 12. The ends of the bar 10- are provided with vertically formed bores 13, and a cable or cord 14 has its ends passed through a double pulley 15 supported from the ceiling 16 of the room by a hook 17. One of the free ends of this Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 13, 1912.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914. Serial No. 731,099.

cable is passed through one of the bores 13 and knotted as shown at 18 to support one endof the bar while the other end of the cable is passed over a second pulley l9 supported from the ceiling by a hook 20 and then through. the opposite end of the bar, being secured by a knot 21. The double portion of the cable is provided at spaced intervals with a plurality of knots 22 the iuppermost of which is so arranged as to strike against the pulley block 15 when the bar 10 is lowered and so limit its downward movement, while the others are arranged to regulate the height at which the bar may besupported, the looped portion of cable between the knots being passed over a suitable hook 23 secured to one wall 24c of the room.

I am aware that heretofore patents have been issued for clothes driers consisting of a bar mounted uponjcables in the manner above described, but my present invention relates not to the mounting of the bar itself, but to the provision of a plurality of clothes supporting arms hingedly connected in pairs and adapted to be detachably mounted upon the bar 10. These arms, which in the drawing are indicated by the numeral 25, are preferably formed of cylindrical rods of wood and are hingedly connected in pairs as shown in Fig. 2. Each of the hinges 26 employed in connecting these arms together consists of a pair of plates 27 curved longitudinally to conform to the surface of the dowels and perforated to receive bolts, rivets or other suitable fastening devices 28, these plates being secured upon the arms a slight distance from the ends thereof, as shown. Each of these plates is provided at its outer end with an arouate arm, the extension 29 of one plate being formed with spaced, perforated cars 30 and the extension 31 of the other plate is formed with a central ear 32 adapted to seat between the ears 30 of the first. The extensions of the two plates are swingingly connected to each other by a pintle pin 33 passing through the perforations of the alined ears, as best shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. These extensions 29 and 31 are so proportioned that when the hinge is positioned over the top of the bar, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing, and the inner ends of the clothes supporting arms 25 swung to seat in one of the bores 12 and to bear against each other, the hinged extensions will bear upon the upper face of the bar 10.

The bar 10 may be provided with any de sired number of bores 12 and it will there fore be apparent that as many pairs of clothes supporting arms as are desired may be mounted upon a single bar. It will further be apparent that these clothes supporting arms may be of any suitable length and size.

By hingedly connecting the clothes supporting arms in the manner above described, they may be readily applied to or removed from-the main bar 10 and when removed they may be folded together to occupy but little space.

As the inner ends of the clothessupporb ing arms bear against each other in the bores 12 and as the hinged extensions bear against the upper face of the bar 10, all movement of the clothes supporting arms upon the bar, when once in place, is prevented.

It will of course be understood that I do not wish to limit myself to the specific structure of the clothes supporting arms and hinged connection between the same, nor to the specific manner in which said connected arms are mounted upon the supporting bar,

out in the slightest degree departing from the spirit of my invention.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner Washington, I). 0.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A clothes drier including a body member, a plurality of arms hingedly connected in pairs, and means for detachably connecting said pairs of arms to the body member. 2. A clothes drier including a body mem; ber provided with a plurality of transversely extending bores, and a plurality of support- -'ing arms hingedly connected in pairs, said pins passed through said ears, said hinge extensions being so arranged that when the.

adjacent ends of the supporting arms are seated in opposite ends of the bores of the v supportingbody, said extensions will engage the upper face thereof.

In testimony WhGIBOfI affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN LE E CLARKE. 4 [L.S.] Witnesses: V

. JOHN ,1. KELLY,

AL RTO LUNA.

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